Ryosuke Shiroshita

Finite-time erasure cost of a DRAM cell with discrete stored charge

Erasing a bit in a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) cell with discrete stored charge costs more heat than the Landauer bound even in the quasistatic limit, and for the quasistatic protocol studied so far the efficiency rises with the ratio κ of the single-electron charging energy to the thermal energy. We optimize t...